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Aristolochia trilobata

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, medicinal

Common Names

• Cuntribo (Nicaragua)
• Bejuco Amargo (Cuba)
• Media-luna (Honduras)
• Contrayerba (Belize)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Rio de Janeiro
• Pará
• Bahia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• SE. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• lakeside. Tolerant of coastal conditions
• coastal dunes.

Flowering Times

• Summer. Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Oct All year (Puerto Rico)

Herbaceous glabrous or puberulent woody twining liana to 2.6m, corky stems. Trilobate leaves glabrous above, puberulous beneath to 150m wide. Solitary pendulous glabrous 70mm gold-bronze flowers marked red-brown with a 200mm tail, marked with maroon, utricle to 50mm long, tube to 75mm long, upper lobe with appendage to 310mm long, calyx brown with purple stripes. 80mm hexagonal glabrous seed capsule

Medicinal

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Smithsonian
• FOG
• SAFIO